Hello! I am Ziqi Zhou, a Ph.D. student at the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Zhiqiang Tao.

Prior to RIT, I spent one year at University of California, Santa Cruz as a research assistant. I received my M.S. in Computer Science from Nanjing University in 2023, advised by Prof. Yinghuan Shi, and my B.Eng. in Computer Science from Nanjing Normal University in 2020, fortunately working with Prof. Wanqi Yang.

My research focuses on computer vision, multi-modal large language models, and generative AI — and especially their intersection.

     Research Interests
    Computer Vision
Multi-Modal LLM
LLM Agent

  

     Education
    Ph.D. at RIT (2024–present)
M.S. at Nanjing University
B.Eng. at Nanjing Normal University

  

     Miscellaneous
    Photography
Car enthusiast
Formula 1

  

News

2025.08: 🎉 One paper accepted by EMNLP (Findings) 2025.
2025.05: Joined NEC Laboratories America as a research intern.
2024.08: Started Ph.D. at Rochester Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Zhiqiang Tao.
2024.07: 🎉 One paper accepted by ECCV 2024.
2024.06: Joined Bosch AI as a research intern, working with Dr. Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi and Dr. Chen Qiu.

Selected Publications

EMNLP 2025 Findings

Visual Self-Refinement for Autoregressive Models

Jiamian Wang, Ziqi Zhou, Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi, Sohail Dianat, Majid Rabbani, Raghuveer Rao, Chen Qiu, Zhiqiang Tao

In Findings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)

ArXiv

ECCV 2024

A Semantic Space is Worth 256 Language Descriptions: Make Stronger Segmentation Models with Descriptive Properties

Junfei Xiao, Ziqi Zhou, Wenxuan Li, Shiyi Lan, Jieru Mei, Zhiding Yu, Bingchen Zhao, Alan Yuille, Yuyin Zhou, Cihang Xie

In European Conference on Computer Vision 2024

ArXiv Code

ECCV 2022

Generalizable Medical Image Segmentation via Random Amplitude Mixup and Domain-Specific Image Restoration

Ziqi Zhou, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi

In European Conference on Computer Vision 2022

ArXiv Code

CVPR 2022

Generalizable Cross-modality Medical Image Segmentation via Style Augmentation and Dual Normalization

Ziqi Zhou, Lei Qi, Xin Yang, Dong Ni, Yinghuan Shi

In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022

ArXiv Code

TMI 2022

Deep Symmetric Adaptation Network for Cross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation

Xiaoting Han, Lei Qi, Qian Yu, Ziqi Zhou, Yefeng Zheng, Yinghuan Shi, Yang Gao

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

ArXiv

MLMI 2019

Cross-Modal Attention-Guided Convolutional Network for Multi-Modal Cardiac Segmentation

Ziqi Zhou*, Xinna Guo*, Wanqi Yang, Yinghuan Shi, Luping Zhou, Lei Wang, Ming Yang (* equal contribution)

In Machine Learning in Medical Imaging @ MICCAI 2019

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Education

2024.08 - Present: Ph.D., Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology.
2020.09 - 2023.06: M.S., Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University.
2016.09 - 2020.06: B.Eng., School of Computer and Electronic Information, Nanjing Normal University.

Honors and Awards

Outstanding Graduate Student, Nanjing University, 2023.
Excellent Master Thesis (Nominee), CS Department, Nanjing University, 2023.
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of P.R. China, 2022.
4th Place, The 8th CCF BDCI Remote Sensing Image Segmentation, 10,000 RMB Bonus, 2020. [link]
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholarship, Nanjing Normal University, 2017–2020.

Services

Conference Reviewer: CVPR · ICCV · ECCV · NeurIPS · AAAI · ACM MM

Journal Reviewer: TPAMI · TCSVT · TMI · JBHI